Ephphatha (διανοιχθητ, be opened). Another one of Mark's Aramaic words preserved and transliterated and then translated into Greek…

Looking up to heaven. To lift up the eyes to heaven is an act imploring aid from God, and denotes an attitude of prayer ([Reference Psalms…

Looking up to heaven, he sighed.—The look, it is clear, implied prayer, as in John 11:41. The “sigh,” too, has its counte…

Theophylact of Ohrid: The Lord did not wish to stay in the regions of the Gentiles, so that He would not give the Jews an o…

Jesus looked up to heaven in an attitude of prayer, thereby showing the man that God was the source of his power (cf. Jn 11:41; 17:1). Jesus’ sigh …

And looking up to heaven
To his Father there, by whom he was sent, and from whom, as man, he received his authority …

This passage describes the cure of a man who was deaf and mute. Those who brought this poor man to Christ implored Him to consider his condition an…